Rachel Cagnina joins the Rutgers University-Newark volleyball coaching staff after an excellent playing career at Division I McNeese State University.
An All-Southland Conference selection as a senior, the Illinois native led the Cowgirls and ranked seventh in the conference with a .283 hitting percentage, leading the team in kills and blocks.Â
Cagnina played in 29 or more matches all four years of her career at McNeese, taking the court for 423 games. She tallied 942 career kills, hitting .212 overall and .241 and .283 in her final two seasons. Strong on defense as well, Cagnina registered 217 blocks, with 116 coming as a junior and senior.
A Political Science major and English minor, Cagnina served as a club coach in 2011 and 2012 with the Cowgirl Volleyball Club in Lake Charles, La., also working with the Southwest Select Club in 2015.
Academically, she was on the President's Honor Roll List five times while at McNeese and was also a member of the National Society of Leadership and Success, Pi Sigma Alpha National Political Science Honor Society and the Southland Conference Commissioner's Academic Honor Roll.
Cagnina is pursuing her master's from R-N and will assist in all aspects of the Scarlet Raider volleyball programs.Â
